Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Full Text of Netanyahu's speech on Iran's Nuclear Weapon Project (from Times of Israel site)

Prime minister details a vast haul of incriminating
evidence that he says was obtained by Israeli intelligence from Iran's own
nuclear archive

Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech on files obtained by Israel he says
proves Iran lied about its nuclear program, at the Defense Ministry in Tel
Aviv, on April 30, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Full text
of a presentation by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Iran’s
nuclear program, in Tel Aviv on April 30, 2018. (Netanyahu, who began by
hailing one of the “greatest achievements” of Israeli intelligence in obtaining
the material he was showcasing, spoke in English and later delivered a Hebrew
summary.)

Good
evening.

Tonight,
we’re going to show you something that the world has never seen before.
Tonight, we are going to reveal new and conclusive proof of the secret nuclear
weapons program that Iran has been hiding for years from the international
community in its secret atomic archive.

We’re
going to show you Iran’s secret nuclear files.

You may
well know that Iran’s leaders repeatedly deny ever pursuing nuclear weapons.
You can listen to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei: “I stress that the
Islamic Republic has never been after nuclear weapons.” You can listen to Iran’s
president Hassan Rouhani: “Nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass
destruction have no place in Iran’s security and defense doctrine, and
contradict our fundamental religious and ethical convictions.” This is repeated
by Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif: “We didn’t have any program to develop
nuclear weapons. Anyway, we consider nuclear weapons both irrational as well as
immoral.”

Well,
tonight, I’m here to tell you one thing: Iran lied. Big time.

After
signing the nuclear deal in 2015, Iran intensified its efforts to hide its
secret nuclear files. In 2017, Iran moved its nuclear weapons files to a highly
secret location in Tehran. This is the Shorabad District in southern Tehran.
This is where they kept the atomic archives. Right here. Few Iranians knew
where it was, very few, and also a few Israelis.

Now, from
the outside, this was an innocent looking compound. It looks like a dilapidated
warehouse. But from the inside, it contained Iran’s secret atomic archives
locked in massive files. Actually, they’re a little bigger than this, okay?

A few
weeks ago, in a great intelligence achievement, Israel obtained half a ton of
the material inside these vaults. And here’s what we got. Fifty-five thousand
pages. Another 55,000 files on 183 CDs.

Everything
you’re about to see, is an exact copy of the original Iranian material.

You may
want to know where are the originals? Well, I can say they’re now in a very
safe place.

We’ve
shared this material with the United States, and the United States can vouch
for its authenticity. We will also share it with other countries, and we’ll share
it with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

So, let
me tell you the history of this material.

Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech on Iran’s nuclear program
at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on April 30, 2018. Netanyahu said that he
had proof of a ‘secret’ Iranian nuclear weapons programme, as the White House
considers whether to pull out of a landmark atomic accord that Israel opposes.
(AFP/Jack GUEZ)

We’ve
known for years that Iran had a secret nuclear weapons program called Project
Amad. We can now prove that Project Amad was a comprehensive program to design,
build and test nuclear weapons. We can also prove that Iran is secretly storing
Project Amad material to use at a time of its choice to develop nuclear
weapons.

Here’s
what Project Amad’s explicit goal was: creating nuclear weapons. This is an
original Iranian presentation from these files, and here’s the mission
statement: Design, produce and test five warheads, each with ten kiloton TNT
yield for integration on a missile. You don’t need to read Farso to read 10
kilotons here. TNT. This is the specific goal of Project Amad. That’s like five
Hiroshima bombs to be put on ballistic missiles.

This is
an original Iranian spreadsheet from the archives of Project Amad. Look at what
we have here. Yellowcake production, centrifuge enrichment process, warhead
project, simulation project, and test. And indeed, when we analyzed what’s in
these archives, we found that Project Amad had the all the five elements, the
five key elements, of a nuclear weapons program. I want to take them one by
one.

The first
element is designing nuclear weapons. This is an original Iranian illustration
of a weapon. Again, you don’t have to read Farsi to understand this. This is
U235—that’s enriched uranium, right here at the core. That’s the only place
where you find in the core enriched uranium. And here’s an Iranian simulation,
original Iranian simulation putting all these components together. That’s the
first component.

Second
component—developing nuclear cores. Here’s a photo showing the casting process
and a cast metal core, from the archives. And here’s a secret underground
facility the Iranians were building to produce nuclear cores. We have hundreds
of documents for each of these components.

Third
component—building nuclear implosion systems. This is an original Iranian photo
of a measuring device for implosions. And here’s a simulation of a nuclear
implosion.

And
fifth—integrating nuclear weapons on missiles. Here’s a design for a nuclear
payload on a Shahab3 missile, from the archive. Here’s the warhead, here’s the
bomb. And I don’t have to remind you, I think, that Iran is continually
expanding the range of its ballistic missiles, its nuclear-capable missiles.
They started with 1,000 kilometers, they’re now up to 2,000, roughly. They can
reach Riyadh, Tel Aviv, Moscow, but they’re working on far, far greater ranges.
They’re planning much longer range missiles to carry nuclear weapons.

So these
files conclusively prove that Iran is brazenly lying when it says it never had
a nuclear weapons program. The files prove that.

But
here’s what happened next. Iran was faced with mounting pressure in 2003. You
remember that, that was following the Gulf War, so it was forced to shelve
Project Amad. But it didn’t shelve its nuclear ambitions. So Iran devised a
plan to do two things. First, to preserve the nuclear know-how from Project
Amad, and second, to further develop its nuclear weapons related capabilities.
That plan came directly from Iran’s top leadership.

There’s
another document from the archive. This is following the new directive of
Iran’s Minister of Defense, Mr. Shamkhani, today he’s the director of the
National Security Council. Following the new directive of Iran’s Minister of
Defense, the work would be split into two parts, covert and overt. A key part
of the plan was to form new organizations to continue the work.

This is
how Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, head of Project Amad, put it. Remember that name,
Fakrhizadeh. So here’s his directive, right here. And he says: “The general aim
is to announce the closure of Project Amad,” but then he adds, “Special
activities”—you know what that is—“Special activities will be carried out under
the title of scientific know-how developments.”

And in
fact, this is exactly what Iran proceeded to do. It continued this work in a
series of organizations over the years, and today, in 2018, this work is
carried out by SPND, that’s an organization inside Iran’s Defense Ministry. And
you will not be surprised to hear that SPND is led by the same person that led
Project Amad, Dr. Fakrhizadeh, and also, not coincidentally, many of SPND’s key
personnel worked under Fakrhizadeh on Project Amad.

So this
atomic archive clearly shows that Iran planned, at the highest levels, to
continue work related to nuclear weapons under different guises and using the
same personnel.

I want to
give you another example of Iran’s nuclear weapons related activity that
continued after Project Amad. You all remember the Fordow Facility? The Fordow
Uranium Enrichment Facility. This was a secret underground enrichment facility
that the Iranians built under a mountain. You don’t put thousands of
centrifuges under a mountain to produce medical isotopes. You put them there
for one reason: nuclear weapons, enrichment for nuclear weapons. But the files
show that Fordow was designed from the get-go for nuclear weapons as part of
Project Amad.

Here’s an
original Iranian blueprint of Fordow. And what happened was that Iran continued
to build Fordow years, secretly building, years after Project Amad ended.
Here’s what it looks like. That’s the entrance. It goes under a mountain. You
also will not be surprised that Iran insisted on keeping Fordow.

And
amazingly, the nuclear deal enabled it to do it. It enabled it to do it, but
this came with a hitch. Iran was required by the nuclear deal, to come clean to
the International Atomic Energy Agency about its nuclear program. This was an
explicit condition for implementing the nuclear deal. Iran has to come clean.
So in December 2015, the IAEA published its final assessment of what it called
the military aspects of Iran’s nuclear program. This is the report. This was
Iran’s chance to fully come clean to the IAEA. They could tell the truth, they
could say, we had this program, this secret program, it’s over, we shelved it,
it doesn’t exist, we destroyed the material.

Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech on files obtained by Israel he says
proves Iran lied about its nuclear program, at the Defense Ministry in Tel
Aviv, on April 30, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Here’s
what Iran actually told the IAEA. It said, Iran denied the existence of a
coordinated program aimed at the development of a nuclear explosive device, and
specifically denied, get this, specifically denied the existence of the Amad
plan. The material proves otherwise, that Iran authorized, initiated and funded
Project Amad, a coordinated program aimed at the development of a nuclear
explosive device.

Here’s
another document from the archive. This is the master plan of Project Amad.
Iran said to the IAEA, no work has been conducted with multi-point initiation.
This is multi-point initiation. You’ve got to forgive me, this jargon, this
scientific terminology is something that is necessary to understand the
production of nuclear weapons. But here’s what they say, no work has been
conducted with MPI technology in hemispherical geometry. But again, the archive
shows that this is a complete fabrication. Iran conducted extensive work with
MPI technology in hemispherical geometry. There’s an example. Hundreds more
documents prove it.

Iran said
to the Agency, that it had not conducted metallurgical work specifically
designed for a nuclear device. But the files again show that this is a lie.
Iran conducted extensive metallurgical work specifically designed for a nuclear
device. Here’s an original Iranian photo, plenty more in the archive.

So what
I’ve shown you tonight is just a fraction of the total material that we have.
But even from this sample, you can draw four main conclusions. First, Iran lied
about never having a nuclear weapons program. 100,000 secret files prove that
they lied. Second, even after the deal, Iran continued to preserve and expand
its nuclear weapons know-how for future use. Why would a terrorist regime hide
and meticulously catalogue its secret nuclear files, if not to use them at a
later date. Third, Iran lied again in 2015, when it didn’t come clean to the
IAEA, as required by the nuclear deal.

And
finally, the Iran deal, the nuclear deal, is based on lies. It’s based on
Iranian lies and Iranian deception. 100,000 files right here prove that they
lied.

So here’s
the bottom line. Iran continues to lie. Just last week, Zarif said this: “We
never wanted to produce a bomb.” Again: “We never wanted to produce a bomb.”

Yes you
did. Yes you do. And the atomic archive proves it.

US
President Donald Trump speaks during a joint press conference with Nigerian
President Muhammadu Buhari in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 30,
2018, in Washington, DC. Trump said the current Iranian nuclear deal was
‘unacceptable.’ (AFP/Saul Loeb)

The
nuclear deal gives Iran a clear pass to an atomic arsenal. It does so because
it gives them the three components that are necessary to produce this arsenal.
First, unlimited enrichment in a few years. And they plan to do that. They plan
to have several hundred thousand advanced centrifuges with which they can
enrich mountains of uranium for that core that I showed you before. For many,
many such cores. Second, it completely fails to address Iran’s continued
development of ballistic missiles. And third, and this is new, it completely
fails to address Iran’s secret nuclear bomb program and its advanced work on
weaponization. We just did.

So this
is a terrible deal. It should never have been concluded. And in a few days’
time, President Trump will decide, will make a decision on what to do with the
nuclear deal. I’m sure he’ll do the right thing. The right thing for the United
States, the right thing for Israel and the right thing for the peace of the
world.

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